Rocket-serving Mpetshi Perricard rips past Nishioka to reach third round

He serves meteors. He serves lasers. He serves… wins!

French lucky loser Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard advanced to the third round by surging past Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday at Wimbledon. The man who fired 51 aces past Sebastian Korda in a five-set victory in the first-round delivered another 27 on Thursday as he cracked 50 winners and saved the only two break points he faced.

He didn’t just win, he raced. Mpetshi Perricard got through his a best-of-five victory in 71 minutes.

Mpetshi Perricard, ranked No 58, had never won a match at a major prior to this week. He will play the winner of the match between Finn Emil Ruusuvuori and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 11 seed, next.

The Lyon native won 40 of 45 first-serve points and won 27 of his 65 service points via the ace. He has a total of 78 for the tournament.

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In the previous round of The Championships, the 20-year-old Frenchman won against American Sebastian Korda, the No 20 seed (7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-7 (4), 6-3).

Nishioka, ranked No 90, won against Portuguese Nuno Borges (6-2, 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-3) in the previous round of The Championships.

London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):

• Marcos Giron vs. Alexander Zverev: thursday
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: thursday
• Lucas Pouille (Q) beat Thanasi Kokkinakis: 2-6, 7-5, 5-2 ret.
• Cameron Norrie beat Jack Draper (28): 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (6)
• Taylor Fritz (13) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Holger Rune (15) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
• Quentin Halys (Q) beat Karen Khachanov (21): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Gael Monfils beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Alejandro Tabilo (24) beat Flavio Cobolli: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 4-6, 6-4
• Novak Djokovic (2) beat Jacob Fearnley (WC): 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5
• Roman Safiullin beat Tomas Machac: 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
• Lorenzo Musetti (25) beat Luciano Darderi: 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (30): 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Grigor Dimitrov (10) beat Juncheng Shang: 5-7, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
• Denis Shapovalov beat Daniel Altmaier: 7-6 (3), 6-3, 1-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4
• Ben Shelton (14) beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (7)
• Alex De Minaur (9) beat Jaume Munar: 6-2, 6-2, 7-5
• Arthur Fils beat Hubert Hurkacz (7): 7-6 (2), 6-4, 2-6, 6-6 (8) ret.
• Francisco Comesana beat Adam Walton: 7-5, 1-6, 6-7 (12), 6-1, 7-6 (8)
• Jannik Sinner (1) beat Matteo Berrettini: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (4)
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Zhizhen Zhang (32): 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (8)
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Tallon Griekspoor (27): 4-6, 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Tommy Paul (12) beat Otto Virtanen (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
• Roberto Bautista Agut beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Alexander Bublik (23) beat Arthur Cazaux: 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2
• Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-4, 7-5
• Ugo Humbert (16) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 7-6 (9), 6-1, 6-3
• Brandon Nakashima beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
• Frances Tiafoe (29) beat Borna Coric: 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-3
• Fabio Fognini beat Casper Ruud (8): 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (1), 6-3